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Tom Perez’s Junk Data on Palantir

The Labor Department finds discrimination without victims.

Oct. 26, 2016 7:07 p.m. ET

Silicon Valley software firm Palantir Technologies has helped the federal government hunt down terrorists. Yet now the company is being accused by the Labor Department of discrimination based on the agency’s supposedly superior data analysis. If that’s the case, why doesn’t the CIA contract with Labor?

In 2011 Labor initiated a compliance review of Palantir’s workforce, which the agency says turned up three instances of racial discrimination in failing to hire Asian-Americans. An executive order signed by Lyndon Johnson bars...